can't load ghost image on D610

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We just got our 1st D610's in. Using USB bootable mem.key. added D610 to my menus and added broadcom B57.dos driver. (tried both off dell site & 1 from broadcom site) driver loads, packet driver OK....hangs/timeout at 'attempting to contact session...' my IP address are ok, session is 'waiting' on ghost multicast ver 7.5.0.335. BIOS = A03   I can image other pc's like d600/gx260/gx270 etc, just fine, using same memkey,cables...blah, blah dell tech support is stumped. any thoughts?

spoot · Answer

been there, done that.  most of the recent 'fixes' are AFTER the image is on the drive... my problem is getting the image there in the first place...I'll battle the image after boot, later.

Art · Answer

A subject I know nothing about, except that I have seen a LOT of info in here about it.

Run a 'Search' (bottom left) to do this board and then do another at top of next page
"for past 90 days" and you will have enough to read for the rest of the week.

I recall a lot of solutions and the best sounding one was within past 7 days, so try
that before "90 Days":)

Art

eszewczyk · Answer

I'm also having the same issue.

Specifically as it was mentioned when I try and do a ghost multicast the clients (the D610s) do not see my ghost servers (and I've tried multiple servers).

I'm using Ghost 8.00.984 with the latest NDIS drivers off the Dell site (v7.65).

Anyone have suggestions for this issue?

Thanks in advance,

-Erik

eszewczyk · Answer

Strange that it works for you after reloading autoexec. I tried it just to be sure but it does not appear to make a differance for me.

What do you have loading from your autoexec? Mine is pretty simple so I'm wondering if you're loading something differant.

I have the same problem (unable to establish contact with session, error 10030) regardless of whether I boot the machines from Floppy (usb floppy drive), USB flash, or CD.

-Erik

spoot · Answer

i found that the 'session not found' is true...but when i run the autoexec.bat right after it fails, it WILL load. seems like the timing of trying to do it from a USB memkey.....?

spoot · Answer

using b57.dos (kept trying til we found one that worked...)

**contents of autoexec.bat**

@echo off
prompt $p$g
netbind.com

GHOST.EXE -clone,mode=load,src=@MCanchor,dst=2 -sure -fx
rem GHOST.EXE -clone,mode=dump,src=2,dst=@MCanchor -sure -fx -ib -z9

**contents of config.sys**

device=protman.dos /I:\
device=dis_pkt.dos
device=B57.dos

**contents of wattcp.cfg** server is 197.96.100.10 / private network

IP = 197.96.100.217
NETMASK = 255.255.255.0
GATEWAY = 197.96.100.1

**contents of ghosterr.txt**

Date : Wed Jul 6 09:43:12 2005
Error Number: (10030)
Message: Unable to establish contact with session .
Check that the GhostCasting Server application is ready
to accept clients!
Version: 7.50 (May 20 2003, Build=353)
Command line arguments: -clone,mode=load,src=@MCanchor,dst=2 -sure -fx

spoot · Answer

booting from memkey, you 'should' need dst=2 not 1. 1 is the memkey 2 is the hdd. netbind twice/error...yeah...i know....but, it works. we had issues in the past with memkeys reading/running things too fast, so running autoexec.bat twice is ok with us. maybe add the ghost line after a 'pause'...? hmmm

eszewczyk · Answer

@spoot wrote: booting from memkey, you 'should' need dst=2 not 1. 1 is the memkey 2 is the hdd. Using that example above it was booted from a floppy; hence dst=1 I dont think it's a speed related thing on our end. I've tried clearing out autoexec and running the commands one at a time and it doesnt seem to make a differance. Do you know what version of the driver you are running? -Erik

eszewczyk · Answer

Spoot-

What version of the b57.dos driver are you using?

You're basically doing the same as I am; though netbind is working the first time around for me (if I try and run it again it errors that it's already bound). I've tried it a variety of ways such as letting the Ghost boot disk wizard create floppies for me; building my own floppy image; and using a usb flashdrive that we typically use for booting machines for ghosting.

@echo off
netbind.com
SET TZ=GHO+08:00
MOUSE.COM
ghost\ghost.exe -clone,mode=load,src=@MCd610,dst=1 -sure -fx

ABORT: 10030, Unable to establish contact with session (D610).
Check that the GhostCasting Server application is ready
to accept clients!

Message Edited by eszewczyk on 07-06-2005 01:01 PM

spoot · Answer

erik, you have a PM.

eszewczyk · Answer

Spoot YHPM. thanks, -Erik

eszewczyk · Answer

I finally figured out what it was on our end, it doesnt look like a problem with the D610s at all (at least not on our end).   I got a call late yesterday from one of our other admins who had been trying to ghost desktops and was getting the same error messages.  Apparently by default the IRC ports are blocked by Mcaffee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0 which had been deployed to our servers earlier in the week.  Opening those ports allows our multicast sessions to work as normal (regardless of whether we start them from USB, floppy or CD).   Thanks for all the help Spoot,   -Erik

Ssmith56 · Answer

Hi Erik, I have Ghost set up on a laptop and I believe I'm having the same issue what IRC ports did you unblock?

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